Usually means: Place something underground, cover it.
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General (27 matching dictionaries)
  1. Bury, bury: Merriam-Webster
  2. bury: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. Bury, bury: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. bury: Collins English Dictionary
  5. bury: Vocabulary.com
  6. Bury, bury: Wordnik
  7. bury: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. Bury, -bury, bury: Wiktionary
  9. bury: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. bury: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. bury: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Bury, bury: Dictionary.com
  13. bury: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. bury: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Bury (UK Parliament constituency), Bury (borough), Bury (disambiguation), Bury (professional wrestling), Bury (surname), Bury, -bury: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Bury: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. bury: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. bury: Rhymezone
  19. bury: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. bury: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. bury: FreeDictionary.org
  22. bury: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. Bury: TheFreeDictionary.com
  24. bury: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations
  25. bury: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Bury (town), bury: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Bury (town), Bury: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Sound-Alike Words (No longer online)
  2. bury: Idioms

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. bury: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. The Bury, bury, the 'bury: Urban Dictionary

Sports (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Hickok Sports Glossaries (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (Bury)

verb:  To ritualistically inter in a grave or tomb.
verb:  (figurative, slang) To kill or murder.
verb:  (figurative, humorous) To outlive.
verb:  To place in the ground.
verb:  (often figurative) To hide or conceal as if by covering with earth or another substance.
verb:  To render imperceptible by other, more prominent stimuli; to drown out.
verb:  (by extension) To overwhelm.
verb:  (figuratively) To suppress and hide away in one's mind.
verb:  (figuratively) To put an end to; to abandon.
verb:  (sports) To score (a goal).
verb:  (professional wrestling slang) To ruin the image or character of another wrestler; usually by embarrassing or defeating them in dominating fashion.
noun:  (obsolete) A burrow.
noun:  A borough; a manor
noun:  A place in England:
noun:  A village and civil parish in Huntingdonshire district, Cambridgeshire (OS grid ref TL2883).
noun:  A town and metropolitan borough in Greater Manchester.
noun:  A hamlet in Brompton Regis parish, Somerset West and Taunton district, Somerset (OS grid ref SS9427).
noun:  A village and civil parish in Chichester district, West Sussex (OS grid ref TQ0113).
noun:  A village in Péruwelz municipality, Hainaut province, Belgium.
noun:  A commune in Oise department, Hauts-de-France, France.
noun:  A municipality in Le Haut-Saint-François Regional County Municipality, Estrie region, Quebec, Canada.
noun:  A habitational surname from Old English.
noun:  Short for Bury St Edmunds. [A cathedral and market town and civil parish in West Suffolk district, Suffolk, England, previously in St Edmundsbury district (OS grid ref TL8564).]

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